O Emmanuel, our King and Lawgiver, the Desire of all nations and their salvation: come and save us, O Lord our God.
God is with us and yet we have only been able to encounter Him physically, save in the Blessed Sacrament, for not even forty years some two millennia ago.
God is with us and still we say, "How long wilt Thou forget us, O Lord. Forever?" God is with us and still we live as if He were a nice idea or an afterthought or a genie. God is with us and yet still we sin. If we believe that God is with us how can we still lie, cheat, steal, lust and kill?
Humility is the only true way that we can cope with our sinfulness. It becomes necessary to tolerate the fact that each one of us is fallen and broken, and it also becomes necessary by the same token to refuse point blank to accept that brokenness and sinfulness are the masters of our lives. We simply cannot repair ourselves but must rather turn to our Maker for repair and even then we must live with the consequences of our sin. That is how we can embrace Death as the means to ending our constant fall and constant need to repent.
God is with us, walking unseen beside us, calling us to repentance and loving us even as we sin. It is through His Death that we die to destroy our sins, and through His Birth that we are born anew into Eternity.
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